Free Avios with 3V Virtual Visa – our updated list of places where you can use the card

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• Trevor says:

  21 May21 May 11:47

  Yay, after weeks my local Tesco restocked, so bought a bunch this morning – at last! Double-checked all were activated before leaving the store, and immediately activated all online. Only had an issue with one when it said it had already been activated 😮 Checked my list of cards though and a new one had appeared, though I never got the email so had to request to Resend security details, and all turned out fine.

  Tested positive for Royal Mail
  Tested negative for FairFX currency cards – declined by 3V

• Michael Christie says:

  21 May21 May 13:12

  Got feedback from 3v on what is needed for the proof of id if you go over £1650 limit – emailed and heres the reply

  Regarding increasing your voucher purchase limit, we will need to receive the documents ONLY via post:

  (A) Evidence of name and residential address must include copies of any two (2) of the following:

  * Original Utility Bill within the last three months (not a mobile phone bill)
  * Bank or Building Society statement (not a credit card) – within the last three months
  * Local Authority Rating Invoice
  * Inland Revenue Communication

  (B) A certified copy of your current passport or driver’s license.

  Send a copy of your passport or driver’s license that has been signed and stamped by:
  o The staff of a post office,
  o The staff of a banks, a building society or a Credit Union authorised by the Financial Ombudsman,
  o A Chartered Accountants or Certified Public Accountants
  o Embassy / Consular staff, or
  o The Police authority

  You can only post the documents to the address below.

  3V Transaction Services
  PO Box 11852
  Blackrock
  Co. Dublin

  NOTE: Any of the above certifications will only be accepted by Raphaels, if they have been certified within the past 6 month.
  Forwarding the required document to us does not guarantee approval.
  The information receive will undergo review and verification process.

  Your personal information may be passed to fraud prevention agencies or to the police (subject to lawful authority and reasonable requests),
  or in the event that You give Us false or inaccurate information or if there are circumstances that give rise to reasonable grounds to believe
  that an offence may have been committed.

  • tom says:

    31 May31 May 17:19

    I note this:

    “you cannot activate 3V Visa numbers with a total value greater than £1625 in any 365-day period without providing sufficient evidence of your ID and home address”

    but what about this?:

    “you cannot redeem more than £650 from your 3V Visa numbers in any 365-day period without providing sufficient evidence of your ID and home address”.

    I have paid off more than £650 but less than £1625 of my c-tax bill using 3V, but have not had a request for ID, any idea if one will be on it’s way and will they not authorise the payments over £650 which were accepted by city council online payment?

    • Dan says:

      31 May31 May 18:46

      I’ve successfully activated and spent at HMRC £1725 (yes, £100 over their quoted limit). But when I tried to activate another card a few days later I got “Customer is suspended.”

      I emailed to ask it was due to these limits and she confirmed it was and that I’d need to provide evidence of my address. I’m not clear whether I need to send documents from both (A) and (B) or whether one or the other will do. I emailed again for clarification and waiting for their response. But I’ll probably just do it in my partner’s name as it sounds like they’re running out.

• Louie says:

  21 May21 May 13:43

  Must be the first time those in London are at a disadvantage!

• chris says:

  21 May21 May 14:12

  for those using these with the royal mint 50p’s the ones that are listed as “in production” do not have the 4 order limit but have an order limit of 99 each, (tho royalmint will most like cancel the order and refund your card, might be worth trying)

  • Rob says:

    21 May21 May 14:27

    Thanks. I am doing another post on this in a few days.

    • Ed E says:

      21 May21 May 14:48

      I spent last night watching a program about Somme tunnels and taking 100 of these out of their annoying outer film wrappers, popping the middle out of the cardboard and then opening the hard plastic to get the coin out.
      Went into the bank at lunch time and found my local HSBC doesn’t have a coin counter so had to bag them up in £10 batches and deposited them with no problem.

      The HSBC on The Strand, opposite Charing Cross Station (sorry London focused but that is near where I used to work) has a coin counter machine which puts it straight into your account (for HSBC / First Direct customers) so you can reinvest your ill-gotten gains without having any awkwardness with counter staff.

      I have done another 2x£25 orders and one seems to have gone through OK, the money taken off the 3V card, and now closed by Royal Mint. The second has not taken the money and is “StatusHeld ” on the order.

      In my first batch I was short shipped 4 Football coins and they said they would send them ASAP, they also said they were completely overwhelmed with the 50p orders so we are making some poor people in Wales work very hard.

      I presume that they are happy to get rid of the old stock, they are not really making more of these just for us are they?

• Londonbus says:

  21 May21 May 23:40

  Brent Park Tesco (Wembley Extra) had a full stock last night.

  I bought £200. £50 quid for my Orange account, £25 to BT and £125 for Scottish Power.

  Useful as I’ve got the LloydsTSB Duo AMEX and want to push £500 of spend through each month for the next three months before I go back to my MBNA Diamond Club Amex…

  • M says:

    22 May22 May 09:53

    Don’t know if it’s a website/system bug but none of the 3 cards added yesterday are showing on my account. They have been registered(as I’ve received an email with CVV2 etc.) it’s just that they’re not showing under my account.

  • takke says:

    2 Jun2 June 10:48

    Just wondering for anybody who has used the cards with Orange – have you been charged a non Direct Debit fee as I have had this sometimes in the past and don’t really want to have to pay it again as it would make it not worthwhile to use 3V…

• Jamjaw says:

  22 May22 May 10:44

  I am struggling on both priority club and EDF to make a payment using these – keeps on being rejected. Anyone got any thoughts why this might be the case? Just says – could not make payment at this time, try again later.

  • stu6278 says:

    22 May22 May 18:34

    I used one of the 3V cards on EDF last week and it worked fine for me.

• James says:

  22 May22 May 11:12

  I can see O2 is listed – can you use the 3V card to load money onto the O2 Money card?

• Adey says:

  22 May22 May 12:03

  Also works on the charity ‘clearing house’ “mydonate.bt.com”.

  Adey

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